Trainees may request a break in training/be out of programme (Time Out of Training)
from the specialty training programme to which they were appointed for the following reasons:
• Locum appointments
• Maternity/Paternity/Adoption leave
• Career break (OOPC)
• Experience (OOPE)
• Research (OOPR)
• Training (OOPT)
• Sick leave
• Suspension
Absence from training, other than for study or annual leave, may have an impact on a trainee’s ability to demonstrate competence and the satisfactory completion of the curriculum and assessment system to enable them to be recommended for award of a CCST. Within each 12-month period where a trainee has been absent for a total of 10 working days or more (when a trainee would normally be at work), this will trigger a review of whether the trainee needs to have their CCST date extended. The absence includes all forms of absence other than study/annual leave or prospectively approved leave involving clinical experience or research.
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